Lost the last word of my keyphrase

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Hi
I hope someone can help me last Friday I was mugged and had my IPhone stolen
A very unpleasant experience
I have my algo’s on a ledger but I haves all my ASA’s
On my algorand wallet and a few coins

I thought I was super careful with the pass phrase but apparently not

I have only noted 24 words and not the 25th one, and I’m locked out of my account

Can any one help

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Please have a look at:

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Check also this old post 25th word missing :-( - #24 by scholtz

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I tried this already and got this

This is cropped but the words are OK and it continues like this:


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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "recover.py", line 37, in <module>
    curr = confirmed.index(" ", curr + 1)
ValueError: substring not found

Since i am not a programmer this looks like gibberish to me?
It kind of expects something too be there that isn’t

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It did finish normally without finding the word… it means none of the mnemonic combinations gives you the defined address

Meaning the issue is not the missing word…

Perhaps you generated 24 keyword phrase in some wallet? not the algorand account? For example to ledger device?

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so what do I do at this point

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Hi, @josh
Please try this REDACTED procedure. (see comment below)
Enter the 24 words into the second panel, after “At least the first 22 words of passphrase:”, then press “Compute passphrase”

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Thanks @Maugli for the code.
While your website indeed may help less technical users, we are afraid of the security risks.
As currently reviewed the code is secure, but if the website gets hacked, hackers may easily still users mnemonics.
For this reason, we have removed the link.

Please feel free to publish the HTML on a github and link to a precise commit on the Github, which should mitigate security issues.

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it keeps giving this error

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so how can you be of assistance please

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Dear @josh,

I could reproduce the above error with an invalid passphrase. (Simply entered ‘soon’ as the 24th word)
There are two cases: (1) either the last word is really incorrect. In that case, simply OMIT the last word ( and the space before it), give your addrress in the first box, and run the procedure.
(2) the 24 word mnemonic is not a standard Algorand wallet mnemonic at all. Try to remember the type of the wallet. See also this theme.

For better security, the HTML/JS procedure will be published on my Github soon.

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it says done but it’s not showing the last phrase

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@josh because it didn’t find the specified address by varying the 24th word.

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josh… please define what wallet gave you this mnemonic…

for example if you used ledger live wallet it does not give mnemonics for algorand accounts… the private key is stored in your device

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btw… i hope the words in the picture are not part of your real mnemonic… you should never make public nor a part of your mnemonic

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so what do I do now I i would appreciate your quick response

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I think there is not too much to do after all these attempts.

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This was resolved
The Algorand community is awesome
Sorry I’m not so savvy in the www